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The BrainBrowser Surface Viewer
WebGL-Based Neurological
Data Visualization
Tarek Sherif
21.1 Introduction
BrainBrowser
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is a lightweight, open-source, high-performance JavaScript visualization
library built to facilitate visualization of the large, distributed data sets that have become
common in neuroimaging research. BrainBrowser leverages WebGL, Web Workers, and
other HTML5 technologies to allow visualization with any modern web browser. While
BrainBrowser consists of two visualization tools, the Surface Viewer and the Volume
Viewer, this chapter focuses on the WebGL-based Surface Viewer, which is used to visual-
ize 3D surface (Figure ...